Alliance Psychotherapy Service

Anxiety, if not monitored, can become a crippling pathologic disorder. As a compassionate and experienced Anxiety Psychotherapist in Toronto I have compiled this information on anxiety which I hope will be helpful to you or someone you care about in understanding the symptoms and evolution of this disorder.

If you are suffering with depression you have come to the right place. I work attentively and conscientiously with individuals struggling with symptoms that interfere with one's quality of life. I hope that the information presented here will be of assistance to you or someone you care about. Depression affects the body, mood, and thoughts.

As a sensitive and caring Toronto trauma psychotherapist I have worked with many individuals who have suffered trauma in their childhood, adolescence or adult life. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is commonly referred to as PTSD and can happen at any phase of the life cycle.

I hope to illustrate how traumatic experiences play a central role in the development of symptoms such as self-esteem/self-concept issues, depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, relationship difficulties, detachment, behavioural problems, anger, shyness, to name a few.If you have suffered abuse (physical, verbal, emotional) as a child or who have had other previous traumatic experiences, you are more likely to develop the disorder.

People with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have persistent, upsetting thoughts (obsessions) and use rituals (compulsions) to control the anxiety these thoughts produce. Rituals can end up controlling them. If you have OCD, you may be plagued by persistent, unwelcome thoughts. Sufferers can go undiagnosed for many years typically because of intense feelings of embarrassment, guilt, and shame.

I will attempt to disseminate some valuable information on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly referred to as ADHD. Every moment you are choosing information that is meaningful to you and avoiding irrelevant material. Our information-processing capacity cannot make sense of the all the constant input from many sources all at once therefore the brain has to become selective.